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Call for Papers – Hard and Soft Power: questions of race, intimacy and violence in the comparative colonial toolkit
Readers of the blog will hopefully be interested in submitting an abstract for the below conference, held at the University of Kent in July. See strand 3 on ‘colonial intimacy’ in particular. First deadline for proposals is 16th March, but … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, emotions, gender, genealogy, intimacy, marriage, sexuality, women's history
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Recent related readings: a digest
According to a July blog post from the City of Vancouver Archives, camping on the local beaches used to be a “fashionable” thing for many of the city’s wealthier settler families around the turn of the twentieth century. (You won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, camping, Canada, census, children, colonial administration, Cyprus, genealogy, India, indigenous history, Namibia, place names, property
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